Chapter 334: Interrogation
Yuan Shiwu gave the results of the interrogation just now to Lin Ruhai and his son, completely ignoring the angry and unwilling eyes of Zhen Yingjia and his wife.
Speaking of which, the Zhen family is indeed quite wronged, because the master of their family is completely unaware of this matter, Zhen Yingjia now even if he is jealous of the Lin family, he does not dare to do anything to the people of the Lin family, let alone at his own banquet, Zhen Yingjia is not so stupid. Although Zhen Yingjia is a cunning person, but he has a stupid wife who doesn't know the height of the sky, Zhen Han's family has controlled the Zhen family's back house for decades, and has managed the Zhen family like a sieve, and today's affairs are caused by the negligence of the Zhen family's management in the final analysis.
It turned out that there were three people kneeling on the ground, one was the Zhen family's steward in charge of purchasing, one was a kitchen assistant, and the other was a second-class maid in the front yard. The steward in charge of the purchase was bribed by others, took the highly poisonous Hedinghong into the house, and then used silver to buy a cook who was good friends with him on weekdays, and the poison of the kitchen was put in a bowl of shark fin soup, and he bought the maid in the front yard to bring the bowl of poisoned shark fin soup to Lin Lang. In a poisoning case, outsiders only need to find someone with some face in the Zhen Mansion, and the rest don't need to worry about the people behind it. It was only at this time that Zhen Yingjia discovered how messy his house was, and people could buy it by giving a few taels of silver, but this time he gave the poison to Lin Lang, and he couldn't say when someone would give him the poison.
It can be said that Zhen Yingjia's anger is more of a fear of the safety of his net worth, in fact, he also wants the Lin family to be the last in his heart, because he has heard some news about the Lin family's huge wealth over the years, and he is also very coveted for it. Then there is Lin Ruhai's power in Jiangnan is now growing, and there is a trend of surpassing the Zhen family, Zhen Yingjia has been the emperor of Jiangnan for many years, how can he be willing to be trampled under Lin Ruhai's feet? But now that the Lin family has taken deep roots in Jiangnan, it is not so easy to deal with the Lin family, if you want to destroy the Lin family and seize the Lin family's property, you must first cut off the Lin family's incense. As the eldest son of the Lin family, Lin Lang will bear the brunt of the attack and will be regarded as the best target to deal with the Lin family, followed by Jia Min and Lin Ruhai, Lin Yao's special identity can only be dealt with last.
However, no matter how much Zhen Yingjia hopes that the Lin family will die, he will not be stupid enough to let anyone in the Lin family have an accident in the Zhen family, and the Zhen family can be said to have ruined its reputation after being hit again and again in those years. This time, Zhen Yingjia held a banquet during the New Year, just to re-establish a good image in front of people, so that others can see a new Zhen family that "respects rules and understands etiquette". Now it seems that not only did it fail to achieve its original purpose, but it made the reputation of the Zhen family worse. Regardless of whether the Zhen family is related to the poisoning case or not, the chaos in the Zhen family's back house is a certainty, which is completely incompatible with "respecting rules and understanding etiquette", and in a few days, the Zhen family will become the talk and laughing stock of the people of Jinling City, how can these not make Zhen Yingjia's hateful teeth itch?
Lin Ruhai didn't have the mood to consider Zhen Yingjia's mood at this time, he glanced coldly at the three people kneeling on the ground: "You should know very well that since I caught you today, it will be a death, but if I confess the main messenger behind the scenes, I can spare your family, maybe you have any evidence in your hands that can correct the main messenger behind the scenes, and you may be able to save your life because of this." ”
"Master Hou! Master Hou! The slave has evidence, there is evidence! The kitchen assistant said as soon as Lin Ruhai's words fell.
"Tell me, what kind of evidence is it?"
"The one hundred taels of silver tickets obtained by the slave maid are unique to the Xue family, and there are marks of the Xue family on them!"
"Oh? How do you know this? Lin Ruhai squinted at the cook and asked.
"The slave's daughter married the son of a shopkeeper of the Xue family, the slave and the maid listened to her daughter, the Xue family's business is too much, and the Xue family's ticket number is printed on their own silver ticket in order to distinguish themselves from other people's silver tickets, and this mark is only known to the Xue family."
"Where is the silver ticket now?"
"In the past few days to catch up with the New Year, the slave and maid have not had time to exchange the silver, so they have hidden the silver ticket at home!"
"General Yuan, you send someone to follow her back to get the silver ticket!" Lin Ruhai instructed Yuan Shiwudao.
Yuan Shiwu assigned two personal soldiers to escort the cook away, and Lin Ruhai moved his eyes to the steward who was in charge of purchasing.
"You are the one who has been in direct contact with the person who bought you, I don't believe you don't know who is behind the scenes, I will give you a quarter of an hour to think about it, after this village, there will be no such shop, you must know that the crime you committed is to destroy the clan!"
Lin Ruhai's words made the steward shudder, he raised his eyes and peeked at Zhen Yingjia, seeing Zhen Yingjia glaring at him angrily, he couldn't help but feel weak in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for whether his master knew about this matter. The steward frowned and hesitated, although he accepted the money, he thought he was loyal to Zhen Yingjia, although the person who bought him was not Zhen Yingjia, but it had a lot to do with Zhen Yingjia. If that person is confessed like this, will it affect his own master? But Lin Ruhai also explained just now that if he bites him to death, then his whole family will be killed by him, his daughter-in-law is still pregnant, and his youngest daughter has not yet married, how can he bear to see them die because of him?
"It's time! General Yuan......"
"I say! I say! Don't hurt my family! The steward finally chose to keep his family's name.
"Then let's talk about it! I don't have that much time to spend here with you! Lin Ruhai said sharply.
"Yes, yes, yes! On the twenty-eighth day of the previous year, Aunt Miao's personal maid found the slave and gave the slave a silver ticket of five hundred taels and a small package of medicine to the slave, and asked the slave to give the medicine to Uncle Lin. At that time, Aunt Miao's maid said that she wanted to go back and ask their master, and the day before yesterday, the maid found the slave again, and gave the slave a set of red gold head jewelry, which was given to her by the master after Aunt Miao entered the house, and now the set of head and face is in the slave's house, which was originally intended to be used as a dowry for the little girl, so it was collected in the treasury of the family. ”